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'''ExecPC''' is an [[online service provider]] started in 1983 by owner Bob Mahoney as the '''Exec-PC BBS'''. It quickly grew to be one of the world's largest [[bulletin board system]] in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, competing with the likes of [[Compuserve]] and [[Prodigy (ISP)|Prodigy]].
ExecPC began offering [[Internet access]] in 1994 as ExecPC Internet, and being based in [[New Berlin, WI]], quickly grew to be the largest [[Internet service provider]] in [[Wisconsin]]. The company was sold in 1998 to Voyager.net of [[East Lansing, MI]]. After a lengthy series of acquisitions, the assets are now held by LocalNet of [[Buffalo, NY]]<ref>http://www.localnet.com/releases1.phtml Retrieved 12 July 2007</ref>.
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